Camp Crame

I'm making this entry while stuck in heavy traffic. We're on our way to Camp Crame, our homebase til June 30. Ok naman siya, malinis, peaceful, pero ang mga patients namin re not the usual sick patients. Most, if not all of them, ay victim ng crime.

First Patient

Alleged rape victim. Minor yung girl. Minor din yung offender. Nakipaginuman sa mga guys. Si Gran Ma(tador) ang tinira ng mga loko. 4x!!! Later on nakita na lang nung friend nung girl sa damuhan na nakapatong yung isa sa mga guys sa girl, both of them naked!!! Hay buhay. Ayun, nakulomg yung guy, yung babae pinaexam sa amin sa Crame.

Intact hymen but with congestions within the periphery of the vagina. Based on the new Rape Act, di naman na kailangan mapenetrate ang hymen para maconsider na rape ang incident. Basta may ipask ka doon, daliri man o pencil, basically kahit ano na against the girl's wishes e, pwede ka ng makasuhan ng rape.

Lesson learned: hindi mapagkakatiwalaan si Gran Ma!

Second "Patient"

"Patient" kasi patay na siya. Autopsy of a motor vehicular accident victim. Guy was driving a Honda Civic, on his way home, when out of nowhere, a drunk alleged DLSU prof, driving a Ford Escape rammed into the right side of the car.

"Patient" sustained a fractured arm and pelvis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, ruptured aorta, and hemothorax. "Patient" was 30, married and has a 7 yr. old child.

According to the victim's family, the family of the driver tried to negotiate with them, but they declined.

Hinding-hindi ko makaklimutan ang unang autopsy na ito. My first ever autopsy. It was gruesome. It's like going to the butcher. The utensils were unlike those we used in the operating room. Knife na sobrang matalim at hack saw talaga ang gamit namin. Kung ako ang relative ng victim tapos I'd be required to watch the procedure, I'd be mortified!

The good thing about the autopsy naman is that you get to apply the reasoning we learned in legal medicine. We also get to see fresh specimen, the organs are not dry and rotting like those of the cadavers we used in med school. All in all it was a great learning experience.

Lesson learned: Matibay ang Ford Escape! Mismong sa mom ng victim nangaling yan. Wasak daw ang Honda Civic while the Ford Escape was still intact after the incident. Alam nila na matibay talaga ang Ford, account manager bg Ford ang victim e.

Third Patient

Domestic violence. Husband is a cop who's assigned at the building beside ours. Wife is a midwife working at a hospital in Ortigas. Husband punched wife and tried to ran her over with his motorbike.

Wife's scared of reportig her husband. She's terrified of being seen inside the clinic for her husband might find out that she's filing a case against him. We were on a lookout yesterday while she's under our care. There was a time na nagpanic kami since the patient started complaining of headache. Buti it wasn't anything serious, thank God.

Lesson learned: Learn self-defense? Don't get married? I don't know.

Hopefuly all our patients get the justice that's rightfully theirs.